From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 20:03:52 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Improve text a bit. X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/commitdiff_plain/e381c067c57d8dee000bfa4b8e4080c6ff104789?hp=93a66e88bd1288418cd208d08c81c4d5d1919fa1 Improve text a bit. --- diff --git a/blog/data/2015-08-19-free-culture-on-paper.txt b/blog/data/2015-08-19-free-culture-on-paper.txt index 500256edf9..184efa8d93 100644 --- a/blog/data/2015-08-19-free-culture-on-paper.txt +++ b/blog/data/2015-08-19-free-culture-on-paper.txt @@ -1,21 +1,23 @@ Title: In my hand, a pocket book edition of the Norwegian Free Culture book! Tags: english, docbook, freeculture -Date: 2015-08-19 22:00 +Date: 2015-08-19 22:10 -

Today, finally, my first printed edition of the Norwegian version -of Free Culture arrived in the mail. I had to to fake some cover to -get the interior printed, and the exterior of the book look awful. -But that is irrelevant at this point. I asked for a printed pocket -book version to get an idea about the font sizes and paper format as -well as how good the figures and images look in print. After -receiving the 500 page pocket book, it became obvious to me that that -pocket page size is too small for this book. I believe the book is -too thick, and several tables and figures do not look good in the size -they get with that small page sizes. I'll go with the 5.5x8.5 inch -size instead. A surprise discovery from the paper version was how bad -the URLs look in print. They are very hard to read in the colophon -page. The URLs are red in the PDF, but light gray on paper. I need -to change the color of links somehow to look better. But there is a +

Today, finally, my first printed draft edition of the Norwegian +translation of Free Culture I have been working on for the last few +years arrived in the mail. I had to fake a cover to get the interior +printed, and the exterior of the book look awful, but that is +irrelevant at this point. I asked for a printed pocket book version +to get an idea about the font sizes and paper format as well as how +good the figures and images look in print, but also to test what the +pocket book version would look like. After receiving the 500 page +pocket book, it became obvious to me that that pocket book size is too +small for this book. I believe the book is too thick, and several +tables and figures do not look good in the size they get with that +small page sizes. I believe I will go with the 5.5x8.5 inch size +instead. A surprise discovery from the paper version was how bad the +URLs look in print. They are very hard to read in the colophon page. +The URLs are red in the PDF, but light gray on paper. I need to +change the color of links somehow to look better. But there is a printed book in my hand, and it feels great. :)

Now I only need to fix the cover, wrap up the postscript with the